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When Mark Ellsworth and his family offered to take in their new friend Matilda, they weren't expecting her to be so … rotund. "I thought she was like a little micro-pig," said Ellsworth. "So my first thought was, 'Holy crap, she's…

DAN GELSTON Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Doc Rivers' penchant for playoff collapses and second-round exits cost him his coaching job with the Philadelphia 76ers.The 76ers fired Rivers on Tuesday…

Doc Rivers Photo: PHOTOSPORT Philadelphia 76ers head coach Doc Rivers has been fired after a humiliating Game 7 loss to the Boston Celtics, as the team bounced out in the second round of the NBA playoffs for a third straight…

Doc Rivers Photo: PHOTOSPORT Philadelphia 76ers head coach Doc Rivers has been fired after a humiliating Game 7 loss to the Boston Celtics, as the team bounced out in the second round of the NBA playoffs for a third straight…

Associated Press SAVANNAH, Ga. — Larry “Gator” Rivers, who helped integrate high school basketball in Georgia before playing for the Harlem Globetrotters and becoming a county commissioner in his native…

Everybody seems to know everybody in Virgin River, but besides a bit of small-town gossip, most of the people who live there are kind-hearted and considerate. The good-natured residents of Virgin River are part of the reason…

To get a sense of the enormous amount of water atmospheric rivers dumped on the Western U.S. this year and the magnitude of the flood risk ahead, take a look at California’s Central Valley, where about a quarter of the nation’s food is…

Fisheries and Oceans Canada's top enforcement officer in the Maritimes says an "unprecedented" number of poachers descended on Nova Scotia and New Brunswick rivers this spring to illegally remove baby eels, also known as elvers.They…

As winter approached, few anticipated what was about to hit California.Mired in a serious drought, the state was suddenly battered by an onslaught of 31 atmospheric river storms in a matter of months. While the number alone isn’t…

Heavy rain this week turned the Los Angeles River flood-control channel into a raging torrent, and with new storms expected on Monday, emergency officials are keeping a wary eye on a well-known stretch that has long been vulnerable to…